J.K. Rowling responds to criticism of transgender comments

J.K. Rowling has written an essay in response tocriticismshe received for a recentseries of tweetsconcerning trans issues.

TheHarry Potterauthor posted the 3,600-wordessayWednesday on her website.

That is the simple truth."

The allure of escaping womanhood would have been huge.

I struggled with severe OCD as a teenager.

“‘People who menstruate.’

I’m sure there used to be a word for those people.

Someone help me out.

This was labeled transphobic and replies accused Rowling of being aTrans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist(TERF).

“Transgender women are women,” Radcliffe wrote Monday in ablog post.